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Magistrates

PART IX

MISCELLANEOUS

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Rules

133. The Chief Justice, with the approval by resolution of the Legislative Council, may make rules for the carrying into effect of this Ordinance and for any matter ancillary thereto.

Regulations as to costs and fees

134. (1) The Chief Justice, with the approval by resolution of the Legislative Council, may make regulations-

(a) as to the fees to be taken (if any) at the magistrates' court in respect of any proceedings or of the issuing, service or execution of any process or otherwise;

(b) as to the costs (if any) to be allowed for the attendance of witnesses or for legal assistance or otherwise;

(c) fixing a scale of such fees and costs;

(d) exempting any particular class of cases from the payment of any such fees or costs;

(e) as to the fees to be taken for the supply of copies of minutes and extracts from registers under section 35A. (Added, 14 of 1979, s. 4)

(2) A table of the fees and costs for the time being in force shall be hung up in some conspicuous part of the magistrates' court.

(3) A magistrate may refuse to do any act for which any fee is payable unless such fee has been paid, and, where any such act is done and the fee due thereon remains unpaid, any magistrate may summon the person from whom such fee is due and the fee may be recovered in the manner provided in this Ordinance for the recovery of a fine.

Amendment of First Schedule and Fourth Schedule

135. The Governor in Council may by order amend the First Schedule and the Fourth Schedule.

(Amended, 59 of 1972, s. 3) (Part IX replaced, 32 of 1966, s. 5)

FIRST SCHEDULE

Ordinance

Item

1. Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Cap. 59).

2. Fire Services Ordinance (Cap. 95).

3. Post Office Ordinance (Cap. 98).

4. Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (Cap. 109).

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